ON Sabbath last Rev. Mr Strachan preached his farewell sermon. The Church was filled, there being a good sprinkling of people from other congregations. The portion of scripture read was the 26th Psalm, and the rev. gentleman chose for his text Acts 20 chapter, and 32 verse. During the service many of the congregation were unable to conceal their grief, especially in his concluding remarks, which were as follows— "During these few short years I have laboured amongst you it has been my earnest and prayerful desire to keep back nothing that was profitable unto you. I believe I can with an honest and true heart say that I have desired to keep back nothing that was profitable unto you, that I have desired to declare unto you the whole counsel of God. How far God has made use of me in building up those whom He had here committed to my teaching I cannot tell. I judge not mine own self. He that judgeth me is the Lord, and the last day alone shall show whether my work abides or not. God knows that it has been my earnest desire to make you disciples of the truth, the truth as it is in Jesus. I have never wished that you should receive anything from me because I was your minister, but only so far as it was in accordance with God's revelation to be found in or consistent with His Holy Scriptures, and confirmed by the witness of His Spirit in your hearts, I have desired rather to help you to build yourselves than to build you myself. But if any words of mine have ever by God's grace been made profitable to you; if they have ever helped you in difficuity, or solaced or encouraged or strengthened you in the path of duty, or guided you aright; if they have led you to avoid some temptation or braced you to face some danger; if they have ever banished a doubt or soothed a perplexity; if, above all, you have gained through them a firmer grasp on the things eternal; if you have a more assured faith in God as your Father, in Jesus Christ as your Saviour from sin and your ever loving friend; in the Holy Spirit as the source and fountain of all light you need, and of your true life; if ever either by word or by act God has made me a builder of any of you—then let me ask you to remember me in time to come, and to pray for me that in all things I may know God's will, and at all times may be enabled to fulfil it. I have felt, my friends, that I could not find words more suitable than these words of Paul upon which to speak to you to-day, the last time I shall do so as your minister. They are taken as you know from Paul's farewell to the Elders of Ephesus when they met him at Miletus. He tells them that they shall see his face no more, and commends them to God and to the word of His grace, as one who could keep and shield them and give them that heavenly inheritance when he should be removed. The circumstances which have caused our separation are painful in the highest degree. And as for those who have conspired to bring about our separation, I pity them, and pray that God may forgive them for all the injury they have done to me. There is a day coming when a righteous God will give to every one his reward. Then, as I now, I know how I shall stand. Yet I cannot but feel how I have been wronged, and much wronged; but, notwithstanding all that I have suffered, and will yet suffer, with a clear conscience, God will strengthen me and sustain me to bear my present painful trial, as well as the great wrench I have had to make. My dear friends, I can say no more, my strength and my heart fail me. I must conclude, and now I bid you farewell. True friends, kind and loving hearts, I must part from you very shortly, and many of you, perhaps most of you, will see my face again no more. We must part, but I shall never forget you. I shall never cease to pray for you. You will always hold a large place in my heart. I cannot hope to find anywhere more kindness, sympathy, and affection than I have received from many of you, my dear people. My last request is that you will pray for me in the future as you have done in the past. I will not cease to pray for you, that though parted now we may meet hereafter in that world where no shadow is cast on the face of joy, because there are no partings of the blessed.